Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed,despite this miserable guerilla opposition.- Victoria Woodhull

I will never understand people who think that the wayto show their righteous opposition to sexual freedomis to write letters full of filthy words.- Anna Quindlen

Opposition is not necessarily enmity;it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.- Sigmund Freud

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victimto blaming the victim's advocate's statistics.Irrespective of what the numbers are,it's far too many.- Patricia Ireland

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religionwill legislate its creed into lawif it acquires the political power to do so,and will follow it by suppressing opposition,subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.- Robert Heinlein

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion?What is the matter with the soft Darkness,the Dreamless Sleep?- James Thurber

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns -the fans were more rabid,and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.- Bob Cousy

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.- Bainbridge Colby

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonableanswer-at least an answer that is as consistent withGod's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.- John Clayton

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably,it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.- Ricky Ponting

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clearin his opposition to the war.People appreciate a politician with the courage to say,I oppose this war.- Bianca Jagger

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles,and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.- Gustav Stresemann

We already have a sabbatical system.It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.- Nigel Lawson

In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward toban people from wearing pants that fit too low.However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.- Conan O'Brien

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility -which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that'sto provide an alternative government.- Stephen Harper

Many a man's strength is in opposition,and when he faileth, he grows out of use.- Francis Bacon

The concept of active cooperation has taken the placeof opposition to the new form of government and ofdreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.- Gustav Stresemann

So the better my partner or my opposition,however you like to think about it, the better my game.- Jeremy Irons

The simple opposition between the people and big businesshas disappeared because the people themselves havebecome so deeply involved in big business.- Walter Lippmann

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers ofphysics and write poetry at the same time.They are in opposition.- Paul Dirac

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere,but it does seem as if it is only the opposition thatcares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.- James Bovard

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition,nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.- Jack Levine

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism,or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatableor which do not command our approval.- Bainbridge Colby

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.- Frank Harris

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes thedivine right to denounce and silence all oppositionto war as unpatriotic and cowardly.- Robert M. La Follette

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.- Adrian Cronauer

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition.They're just called the Opposition.But in fact they are the Opposition in exile.The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.- Antony Jay

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came,if they are in opposition to human rights,are nothing but dead letters.- Ernestine L. Rose

We respect opposition to any position or policy.But we believe that the opinion that should prevailand be respected is that of the majority.- King Hussein I

The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing,but for myself, I call on opposition to practice itsrole within limits of objectively,responsibility and country interests.- Ali A. Saleh

Every nation has its war party...It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless.It tolerates no opposition.- Robert M. La Follette

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipationis more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.- Virginia Woolf

My opposition to the Vietnam War.I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.- Robert Vaughn

I have never believed you make your case stronger bybad-mouthing your opposition.- Glenda Jackson

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man.Kites rise against, not with, the wind.- Lewis Mumford

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx

If the opposition disarms, well and good.If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.- Joseph Stalin

OK, it was black, it was below grade,I was female, Asian American, young,too young to have served.Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.- Maya Lin

However, I think the major opposition to ecology hasdeeper roots than mere economics;ecology threatens widely held values so fundamentalthat they must be called religious.- Garrett Hardin

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies.Nor did I understand, at that time, any oppositionbetween American and Russian national interest.- Elia Kazan

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation,but by opposition and subversion, both to the rulingpowers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.- Brian Ferneyhough

Far from being the product of a democratic revolutionand of an opposition to English institutions,the constitution of the United States was the resultof a powerful reaction against democracy,and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.- John Acton